On Mar 1, 4:51 pm, Philip Semanchuk <phi...@semanchuk.com> wrote: > On Mar 1, 2009, at 8:31 AM, Hussein B wrote: > > > Hey, > > I'm retrieving records from MySQL database that contains non english > > characters. > > Then I create a String that contains HTML markup and column values > > from the previous result set. > > +++++ > > markup = u'''<table>.....''' > > for row in rows: > > markup = markup + '<tr><td>' + row['id'] > > markup = markup + '</table> > > +++++ > > Then I'm sending the email according to this tip: > >http://code.activestate.com/recipes/473810/ > > Well, the email contains ????? characters for each non english ones. > > Any ideas? > > There's so many places where this could go wrong and you haven't > narrowed down the problem. > > Are the characters stored in the database correctly? Yes they are.
> Are they stored consistently (i.e. all using the same encoding, not > some using utf-8 and others using iso-8859-1)? Yes. > What are you getting out of the database? Is it being converted to > Unicode correctly, or at all? I don't know, how to make sure of this point? > Are you sure that the program you're using to view the email > understands the encoding? Yes. > Isolate those questions one at a time. Add some debugging breakpoints. > Ensure that you have what you think you have. You might not fix your > problem, but you will make it much smaller and more specific. > > Good luck > Philip -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
